7200 rpm vs 10000 rpm hard drive

[akewldewd]

Tell me your opinion on this... Is it worth the extra money. I record a lot of bands with multiple channels up record intitialized sometimes 16 or more at once.

Those who have used both, please chime in!?

[Shifted Music]

I think its worth it. If you like to work fast.

if you know key commands and fly around and edit quick and everything....

its a subtle difference but still just enough to make it react faster. Activating that many tracks often will make the machine more responsive. And faster reading the waveform after recording and zooming.

I personally notice the difference on decent size sessions, working fast, editing/comping, looping, stop/start...

Although some of the latest generation drives seem much closer in performance.

Its hard for me to say weather its worth the extra money to you, it is to me, but then again I almost always have used fast drives ATTO cards and cheetahs 15K scsi- in 2000.

Toms hardware tomshardware.com is a site I look at a lot as he compares drives and performance often. You can research whats out there and see some of the difference from a scientific perspective.

[Bob Olhsson]

I found a 650 gig 7200 was faster than an 80 gig 10,000 so I passed on 10k the next time I bought a drive.